re: #114 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

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One of the lines that was floated in the last few hearings in the House by Repubs was that Trump was using the hold to “test” Zelensky and his commitment to rooting out corruption. The obvious idea was that this “defense” explained the multiple meetings that Trump had with his inner circle about the hold as them pleading Zelensky’s case, that they were working to assure him that the guy was “on the level.”

Between the emails/texts in the hearings and those obtained in recent weeks, it’s obvious that these meetings were not about convincing Trump about Zelensky…they were about getting him to release the hold because they realized it was illegal, realized that the conspiracy was unraveling, and wanted to get out of the whole mess before Congress caught wind.